Improved tagged braid for shoe-strings



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES HILL, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

IMPROVED TAGGED BRAID FOR SHOESTRINGS.

Y Speeilieation forming part of Letters Patent No. 38,164, dated April 14, 1863.

To all whom it may concern,.-

Beit known that I, JAMES HILL, a citizen ofthe United States of Ameriea. and a resident ot" the city and county of Providence, and State of Rhode Island, have invented an Improved Manufacture of Shoe-String Tagged Braid 5 and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described in the following specification, and represented in the accompanying drawing, of Which- Figure l denotes a piece ot' such braid in side view.

The nature oi" my invention consists in ay piece or strip of braid or cord havin g at suit able intervals apart and encompassing it a series ot' bands or tubes ot' metal, each oi which is double or about double the length required for a tag, and so that by cutting each of the said bands or tubes in two or severing it at its middle the Whole piece or strip may be red ueed to shoe-strings provided with tags at their ends.

Previous to my invention it has been cusv tomary to prepare the tags ot' the proper length for use on a shoe-string and apply them thereon by hand, and on a short piece of braid or a piece ot the proper length l'or a Shoestring.

In the production of my invention the double-tag blanks may be put on the braid, either by manual labor or by a machine suitably Inade for the purpose, and after the band may have been so prepared each tag-blank should be eut across at, its middle.l and the two tags thus formed out ot' each blank should be pointed.

I do not claim a shoe-string composed of a pieeeot' braid or cord and two tubular tags affixed upon it at its two ends; but

What I (lo claim as my invention is The abovedeseribed improved manufacture of double-tagged braid capable ot' being made into tagged shoe-strings by severing each doubletag blank at its middle, as specitied.

JAMES HILL.

Witnesses:

It. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr. 

